The person's messages look copied from somewhere. What does it mean?
It usually means the person is working from a script, and the same text is being sent to many people at once. Copied messages are one of the clearest signs of a scam, because a genuine person writes to you, not to a template.
Signs include a different name than yours in the middle of a message, lines that do not answer what you just wrote, poems or declarations that read like a greeting card, and the same spelling mistakes repeated. Veritaza's check 2 searches the internet for the same text, because romance scam scripts are often published on warning sites by people who received them.
How to check
- Copy a whole sentence of the message and search for it on Google in quotes.
- Look for a name that is not yours, or a detail that does not match your chat.
- Ask a specific question about something you said earlier. A scripted person often ignores it.
- Send a few lines of the chat to Veritaza: check 2 looks for the same text elsewhere on the internet.
Frequently asked questions
- Could the person just be bad at writing?
- Yes, but bad writing is personal and consistent. A copied script changes tone from message to message and sometimes switches between formal and casual within one chat.
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